Battle Hymn of the Republic

Midi 1 (Eb90)      Midi 2 (C111)     Midi 3 (Bb95)     

Tabbed by  Mark Purintun
For Diatonic harmonica
Play at 90 BPM

 

 

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 Mine eyes have seen the glory  of the coming of the Lord;
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He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
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He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
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His truth is marching on.

Chorus:
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Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!   Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
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Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!  His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
l can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish'd rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal."
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.

He has sounded form the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

He has sounded from the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

ln the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

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Notes:  The tune was originally a camp-meeting hymn "Oh brothers, will you meet us on Canaan's happy shore?" It evolved into John Brown's Body. Then in 1861 Julia Ward Howe wife of a government official, wrote a poem for Atlantic Monthly for five dollars. The magazine called it, Battle Hymn of the Republic. The music may be by William Steffe.

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